Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter
* News about Mint
There is one important point to add about the security flaw in mintAssistant
Create a root password!
Else you will not be able to use “Recovery mode”
mintAssistant recommends you not to do so, but then you get a random root password, which you will never know
Clem posted comments on reviews of Elyssa in the Blog
Apart from that not much has happened that is publicly known
Behind the scenes we are working hard on the KDE and Fluxbox versions and betas are tested with good result
Unless something happens I think we can see public betas soon
* News about Linux
There has been a large number of releases lately
Parsix, Pardus and Archlinux have all been released last week
Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition released
A new game for Linux – Zero Ballistics Beta for Linux available
Wine 1.1 released
* News about IT
Bill Gates retires from Microsoft
Microsoft prolongs support for XP to 2014
Microsoft is pushing freeware to help combat SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is widely abused to infect websites so they do things the attacker wants
How severe this can be can be seen in this article
Ericsson to sell it’s share in Symbian to Nokia for £209m
Spam DDoS assault cuts off south Pacific state
Swedish members of parliament that voted for the controversial bugging law mentioned in last weeks newsletter are flooded with protest emails
Critical security alert issued for Tor
* Hardware news
ATI and nvidia – the latest graphics card compete
Equipment to tell the position of a RFID tag intended for advertising
* Trivia and other links
* More about Linux Mint
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Husse